# Centalai, Sundareśvara temple, time of Rājakesarivarman, year 9

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INStfaSIIv06p0i0012

Repository: SII adapted (tfa-sii-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INStfaSIIv06p0i0012.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-10-19 18:42 (65fc39d), last modified 2026-09-29 11:09
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## Summary

West wall of the central shrine in the Sundareśvara temple.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-rājakesarivanmakku yāṇṭu 9 (Āva)tu

Ār⟨k⟩kāṭṭu-k-kūṟṟattu brahmadeyam ⟨2⟩ cantralekhai-caturvveti-maṅkalattu
peruṅ-kuṟi sabhaiyōm Ivv-ūr Ai⟨3⟩mpattu mu¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ṟāṅ kuṭumpil
bhārata-paṅku kōyilā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ nāka-ṉan=ti viṟṟa paṅku 1

I⟨4⟩vv-oru paṅkum Ivv-ūr brahmasthānattu miyceṅkiḷi-nāṭṭu
veṇṇāyil-uṭai⟨5⟩yāṉ vayira-¡mm!⟨m⟩ēka{m}-paṭāraṉ Eṭuppitta Ampalattu
Iruntu nicatiyum śrī⟨6⟩-bhāratam vācikka perum-puliyūr Ātraiya-gottrattu
vaikhānasa-sūtrattu śi(ṅki)⟨7⟩(nan=til) śva-rūpa-bhaṭṭanukku
Iṟai-I¡ll!⟨l⟩i-y-āka kuṭuttōm sabhaiyōm

Ivanil-p pi⟨8⟩ṉpu Ip-paṅk’ uṇpār Ivv-ūr brahmasthānattē Iruntu nicatiyum
śrī-bhāratam vāci⟨9⟩tt’ uṇpat’ āka Ip-paṅk’ oṉṟum candrādit=tavat
Iṟai-Ili-y-āka paṇittu kal mēl ⟨10⟩ veṭṭi kuṭuttō(m) peruṅ-kuṟi
sabhaiyōm

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ brahmadeyam ⬦ brahadeyam SII.

⟨3⟩ kōyilā¡n!⟨ṉ⟩ ⬦ koyilān SII.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1896–97 (ARIE/1896-1897/B/1897/63).

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1928 (SII 6.12).

This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis based on Subrahmanya Aiyer 1928
and photos (E. Francis, 2025).

### Primary

[SII] Subrahmanya Aiyer, K. V. 1928. South-Indian inscriptions (texts).
Volume VI: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Telugu and Kannada
countries. South Indian Inscriptions 6. Calcutta: Government of India,
Central Publication Branch. Pages 4–5, item 12.

### Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1896–97. G.O., &c., Nos. 1062, 1063, 10th August 1897.
Epigraphy. Reviewing the annual report of the Government Epigraphist for
1896-97 and forwarding copy to the Government of India. Edited by Eugen
Julius Theodor Hultzsch. Madras: Government of Madras, Public
Department, 1897. Page 8, appendix B/1897, item 63.